From: msnsc21@yahoo.com
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4/28/05
Title: Living History
Author: ML
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Living History
by ML
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/Transcript of speech given at the 25th Anniversary Dinner,
March, 2018 in the old calendar
:::tink tink tink:::
Hello everyone...is this on?
Hello everyone. Honored guests, friends, family, supporters...I
guess, really we all fall into the same category: survivors.
Thank you for the special honor of choosing me to speak to you
tonight. Most of you have taken me on faith, and I hope that I
have proved, and will continue to prove, that your faith is not
unfounded.
You all know why we're here tonight. I won't spend a lot of
time on history that nearly everyone here can recount better
than I. Many of you were eyewitnesses to some of the events
that have brought us here, though in the way history often
happens, no one knew at the time that they were living through
events that would have such an impact on the future. Not just
their own personal future, but the future of all of us.
Before I go any further, I'd like to call out a few
acknowledgments: we are especially honored tonight to have
President-elect Skinner with us. Yes, please do applaud.
Thank you, Sir. We are hoping for a satellite feed from
Europe, where John and Monica Doggett are overseeing the
reconstruction projects there. Likewise, we expect John
Byers and Dr. Modeski to join us from Antarctica. That's
if Mr. Langly and Mr. Frohike can get the connections up
and running.
[indistinguishable reply from either Langly or Frohike]
Although this is meant to be a celebration, I'd be remiss
if I didn't ask everyone to take a moment to think of those,
known and unknown, who paid the price so that the rest of us
could live to fight on. As you know, we will be having the
formal memorial in a few days, but please allow me to
acknowledge just a few of those who are never far from
our thoughts.
Margaret Scully and her sons Bill and Charles were early
casualties. Bill Scully was slow to come to the Resistance
but he became one of its fiercest supporters, and his brave
service and leadership during the Battle of the Gulf of
Mexico will not be forgotten. His wife, Tara, and his son
Matthew are here with us tonight.
[applause]
Charles had actually been part of the Resistance before
there was one. Most of you now know the story of how he
found Mulder and Scully on the run, and got them to what
would become Resistance headquarters. No one knew at the
time, but that was a turning point for the human race. I'm
sorry that I didn't get the chance to know either of these
brave men, but their deeds will be forever remembered.
It is not known what happened to Margaret Scully, only that
it is likely she was a victim of the conspiracy that
masterminded the invasion. She disappeared not long after
Mulder escaped and Agent Scully disappeared.
As difficult as it is, we owe it to those who gave their all
to honor them by acknowledging how far we've come before we
continue with the fight. We are grateful to them all.
Tonight is not only a celebration for us, but a celebration
of their lives and what they did to enable us to continue.
There are so many others that I have not named. There is
not a person here who has not suffered a loss, and we honor
the memories of them all. Please, before we go on, let us
take a moment of silence to think of those who have fallen.
[pause]
Who among us would have imagined this day, twenty-five years
ago? Certainly not I. And with good reason, I know. But
those of you who have been a part of this story, or who were
there at the beginning...did you ever imagine anything like
this?
I don't think even our guests of honor tonight could have
foretold this. How could they know that their meeting,
twenty-five years ago, portended such events? Events that
eventually unfolded on a global scale, that took them and
their followers into places and into events that are beyond
the scope of the average citizen to even contemplate.
Some might say that perhaps it's a good thing they didn't
know, or we might *not* be here tonight. Who among us, when
confronted with our future, would be able to face it with
equanimity? It's a question almost impossible to answer.
So much of what Dana Scully and Fox Mulder have done has
become legendary. It's sometimes hard to separate fact from
fiction. And since they themselves often related differing
versions of the same events, we may never know the whole
"true" story.
What we do know is this: In the spring of 1993, Dr. Dana
Scully was assigned to work with Special Agent Fox Mulder
and the X-Files Division at the FBI. Dr. Scully, according
to official records, was sent to bring a scientific
discipline to the work of Agent Mulder. He admits that
he looked upon her as a spy at first. Although many of
the early files have been destroyed, we know that the most
important thing to them both was the truth.
Whatever their differences of opinion might have been, they
soon had one of the highest solve rates in the FBI. Their
partnership was often the subject of much speculation and
rumor, and their cases even more so. In their time, they
investigated a wide range of unusual phenomena. They
tackled the cases no one else wanted. And, little by
little, they began to see a pattern emerge -- one that
those responsible for bringing them together never wanted
them to see.
Over the years and many personal losses, they persevered.
Their partnership weathered separation, even death, many
times over. And yet they persevered. Even when it
appeared they'd lost their last friends, that they had
nowhere to turn, they kept on.
Their perseverance got them attention. Some of it was
unwanted. But in other quarters, they were reaching the
right people. The ones who weren't beholden to anyone
but themselves and what they believed. And, when the
time came, these were the people who came forward. Some
paid with their lives, as you well know. But together
they believed, and together they helped tip the balance.
These are the things that no one can predict. This is
the sort of thing that, if you saw it in a movie or
read it in a book, you'd think, "unbelievable." But
it happened.
Mulder and Scully, as the whole world knows them now,
would be the first to say that no one gets there alone.
It's hard to know if we were destined to meet as we
did. I know that one way or another we would have.
One of the reasons I was asked to speak tonight,
besides the obvious, was to tell a little of my own
part in all of this.
I was living what I thought was a normal life with
my adopted family in Wyoming. They'd never kept my
adoption a secret, though all they knew of my birth
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